clocher

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But down south, in French rugby's heartlands l'esprit de clocher - literally 'the spirit of the belltower' - is a thing.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2023

There is no regularly completed tower to St. Siffrein, but a still unachieved tenth-century clocher in embryo attaches itself on the south.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

Musset produced a certain "Ballade à la Lune" which began— C'était dans la nuit brune Sur le clocher jauni, La lune Comme un point sur un i!

From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various

What would correspond to the cathedrals of Noyon and Soissons and the old clocher and fleche of Chartres is lost.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

Blavignac, in Comptes et depenses de la construction du clocher de Saint-Nicolas a Fribourg en Suisse, comes to a similar conclusion.

From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz